Honoring the dead

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Emergency workers say a prayer next to a body just pulled from the rubble in Rikuzentakata, Japan. The death toll continues to rise with numbers of dead and missing exceeding 20,000 in a tragedy not seen since World War II in Japan.

Emergency workers say a prayer next to a body just pulled from the rubble in Rikuzentakata, Japan. The death toll continues to rise with numbers of dead and missing exceeding 20,000 in a tragedy not seen since World War II in Japan. (Paula Bronstein, Getty Images)

Emergency workers say a prayer next to a body just pulled from the rubble in Rikuzentakata, Japan. The death toll continues to rise with numbers of dead and missing exceeding 20,000 in a tragedy not seen since World War II in Japan.